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Dual Highway from Colonial Drive to Eastern Boulevard is again open to traffic after a downed high-voltage power line closed the roadway for about four hours, dispatchers said. Traffic lights were still out on that portion of the road as of midnight, causing traffic congestion, dispatchers said. A portion of Eastern Boulevard remained closed at midnight as crews continued work there, but work there was completed overnight, dispatchers said. The power line fell in the area of Eastern Boulevard south of Dual Highway, dispatchers said.

Jefferson County planning officials first started thinking about the future of the seven-mile stretch of U.S. 340 from the Virginia line to the Charles Town city line in 2004 when it adopted its then new Comprehensive Plan. The plan called for a study of the 340 Corridor in terms of land use, economic development and traffic flow and design. On Thursday night, members of the county's planning department staff and planning commission members met with the Jefferson County Commission at a workshop before an audience of about 30 people.

By ELLEN LYON Staff Writer Motorists can expect minor delays along Robinwood Drive and Mount Aetna Road over the winter to be followed by major delays next summer as improvements are made to accommodate the increasing traffic flow and development in the area, county officials said Monday. "There's no way to do it without major inconvenience," Washington County Engineer Terry McGee said. "People just need to be patient. " The project will cost an estimated $2.16 million project, with county taxpayers funding about $1.1 million of it and Antietam Health Services Inc. picking up the rest, according to county figures.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Two projects designed to improve traffic flow in and around one of Berkeley County's most heavily traveled intersections have received the green light from the West Virginia Division of Highways (DOH). Traffic signal upgrades at Apple Harvest Drive (W.Va. 45) and Winchester Avenue (U.S. 11) and four other intersections along the southern end of Martinsburg are part of a project to better coordinate the flow of vehicles to Interstate 81, acting area DOH engineer Kenneth L. Clohan said this week.

Community briefs New traffic signals turned on today New traffic signals in the area of Burhans Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue will be turned on today and Tuesday, said Assistant City Engineer Rodney Tissue. The signals are at: Pennsylvania Avenue and Burhans Boulevard. Pennsylvania Avenue and Park Lane. Burhans Boulevard and Park Lane. The new signals are computerized and will improve traffic flow, Tissue said. It will take a week or two to fine-tune the signals, he said.

A Greencastle, Pa., woman was taken to Washington County Hospital after a single-vehicle accident at about 6:35 p.m. Friday on Interstate 81 just north of the Maryland state line, according to a press release from Pennsylvania State Police. The 23-year-old woman lost control of a 1998 Ford Explorer when she tried to pass traffic in the northbound lane near mile-marker 1 in Antrim Township, the release said. The vehicle struck a guardrail and rolled about 300 feet down the highway before coming to rest in the median, police said.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com WAYNESBORO - Unless the Waynesboro Borough Council reverses itself again, the long-awaited project to build a $1.2 million synchronized traffic light system on Main Street could begin in June 2005, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The project, if it gets under way as planned, would be finished by the end of November 2005, PennDOT spokesman Greg Penny said Friday. The seven-intersection traffic control system runs east along Main Street from North Grant Street to Welty Road in Washington Township.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Much of the traffic from the proposed 3,300-home Hunt Field development will be routed to Charles Town Bypass, preventing feared congestion downtown, according to a traffic study recently released by developer Greenvest L.C. of Vienna, Va. According to the study, Greenvest will build a railroad overpass that will link two sections of the 1,000-acre property currently divided by railroad tracks. The overpass, which will cost a little over $1 million to build, will allow Hunt Field residents from any part of the development to reach the east side of the property, where they can access the Charles Town Bypass, the study says.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Interstate 81 construction projects set to begin this spring will help bring Berkeley County up to speed with the area's development boom, officials said. The planned widening of the King Street bridge over I-81 from two to five lanes could begin as early as April and will mark the beginning of five I-81 projects designed to improve traffic flow through Berkeley County, said Randy Epperly. [cont. from news page ] Epperly, the deputy state highway engineer for project development in Charleston, said the I-81 plans are a reaction to the amount of traffic already in the county and should accommodate continued growth over the next 20 years.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Hamilton Township and Chambersburg are considering recommendations to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on how best to improve traffic flow on U.S. 30 west of the borough, including making Loudon Street eastbound-only. A study of alternate routes between U.S. 30 west and U.S. 11 south of the borough concluded that most traffic is headed into - not around - Chambersburg and the best results might be achieved by improving U.S. 30, Borough Manager Eric Oyer told the council Monday.